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J. & J. J. KAUFPMAN. FOLDING CLOTHES RACK.

Patented Dec. 10,1889.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC .IosEPI-I KAUFFMAN AND JOHN J. KAUFFMAN, or PHILADELPHIA, PENN:

SYLVANIA.

FOLDING CLOTHES-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,843, dated December. 10, 1889. Application filed July 25, 1889. Serial No. 318,687. (No model.)

' andJOHN J. KAUFFMAN, both citizens of the United States, residing at the city of Phila-- delphia, in the county of Philadelphia and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in. Folding Racks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof, and in which Figure 1 is a rear elevation ofa portion of the head-board of a bedstead with our improved folding clothes-rack applied thereto, that is in full lines in a concealed position and in dotted lines in a position for use. Fig. 2 represents a detached elevational view of the folding rack, showing the supporting-arm with its projecting hooks detached and the bracket to be applied to the piece of furniture; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of our improved folding rack with the projecting hooks removed, and in which view the device in full and in dotted lines is shown in the respective positions the same occupies when concealed and in position for use.

The principal object of our invention is to provide an improved clothes-rack of not only simple construction, but also cheap, compact, and durable, and a rack which may be readily attached to a piece of furniture in such manner as that when in use the same affords a firm support for clothingand other articles,

and when not in use maybe folded down and projections b and Z).v

B, B, and B are three hooks of any preferred construction, but with preferably their rear ends enlarged, with lugs c, c, and 0 cast therewith or secured thereto. These hooks B, B, and B are, by means of a pivot (1, con- F is a bracket, preferably constructed curvilinear in form at the top and with the rear side cut away at f. This bracket is provided with a rear projectinglug f In this bracket are holes f for the reception of screws f in order to secure said bracket rigidly to a piece of furniture.

9 is a pin or screw passing through the slot 6 of the armAinto the body of the bracket F.

The mode of operation of our improved folding rack for clothes, &o., is as follows: The bracket F is rigidly secured to the rear portion of the piece of furniture or head board of the bedstead. The arm A is in pivotal connection with the bracket F by means of the pin or screw and afiords a freedom of movement through the horizontal slot 6 of said arm. When the rack is desired for use, the same may be readily moved by hand from its full lines in Fig. 1, to the position indicated in dotted lines in the same figure by simply causing the tongue at of the armA to engage with the rear surface of the lug fand with the pin or screw g, thereby assuming a position in the enlarged slot 6, as shown in Fig; 3, when the hooks maybe readily extended to the desired position for the reception of the articles of clothing or apparel. The lugs cast with or secured to the enlarged rear portions of the hooks prevent undue extension thereof or their movement in a contrary direction by the contact of the lugs with the surface of the arm A. \Vhen it is desired to conceal the rack from view, thearm A, with free the annular portion of the slot 8 from the concealed position, which is indicated by the pin or screw g, and the device is then slid vided with shoulders and hooks having" lugs or screw secured to said bracket-,substantially pivotedtl-1ereto,in combination withabraeket as and for the purposes described.

' having a lug and a pin or screw to hold said In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our shouldered arm in position, substantially as hands in the presence of two subscribing wit- 5 and for the purposes described. nesses.

2. The combination, in a folding rack, of a JOSEPH KAUFFMAN. horizontal shouldered arm provided with a- JOHN J. KAUFFM'AN. slot and a tongue, hooks having lugs pivot- \Vitnesses: ally connected with said arm, and a bracket B. V. BEESLEY,

[0 having the rear portion cut away, and a pin J OHN BARBER. 

